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How many people in the U.S. are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender? ]]>
Sun, 4 Dec 2011 04:18:00 UThttps://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Transgender-Local-statistics-2342390.php
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Total number of patients: 242 ( Male to female: 192, Female to male: 50) Average age presentation to clinic 38 years Average duration of follow-up 4.6 years Age at initiation (hormone therapy) 35.5 years Psychiatric disease 112 (58.3%) Average time to surgery without mood and adjustment disorders 11.53 years Average time to surgery with mood and adjustment disorders 23.20 years Average age presentation to clinic 29 Average duration of follow-up 4.7 Age at initiation (hormone therapy) 27.5 Average time to surgery without mood and adjustment orders 4.84 years Average time to surgery with mood and adjustment disorders 4.77 years ]]>
Sun, 4 Dec 2011 02:57:31 UThttps://www.timesunion.com/local/article/A-glossary-of-transgender-terms-2342389.php
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Erotic pleasure is sometimes the motivation for cross-dressers, whose gender identity remains the same as their anatomical sex and who may be attracted to same-sex or opposite-sex partners, or both. Psychological term to describe feelings of pain and anguish that arise from transgender people's conflict between their anatomical sex and gender identity. [...] known as sex reassignment surgery, a series of operations for transgender or transsexual people. Male to female (MTF) involves removal of the penis and surgical construction of a vagina and sometimes breast implants and facial reconstruction. Female to male (FTM) involves removal of reproductive organs and breasts, reconstruction of the chest and occasionally creation of a penis. Extremely rare condition of individuals, also called hermaphrodites, born with genitals that show characteristics of both sexes or are opposite to their genetic sex. Activists contend a cursory examination of the genitalia by a doctor at birth is not an accurate way to determine biological sex. An umbrella term for people whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to the cultural "norm" for the gender into which they were born, or the sex which they were assigned at birth. There is a spectrum of responses, ranging from people who chose to live full-time in the opposite gender without hormone replacement therapy or surgery all the way to those who undergo gender-reassignment surgery. ]]>
Sun, 4 Dec 2011 02:51:03 UT